17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
They report that he was tracked via his cellphone use. What this country needs is a good anonymous cellphone net.
Really. And what's more: when the Colombian drug lord was located via his cellular use, the story was that the NSA had to bring special equipment into the country to do the tracking. That doesn't wash here. It looks like at least some switches in Amerika are already equipped to read out locations for individual phones. They probably don't even have to wait for you to make a call - they can call you, or even use the phone's automatic pings. --- Jef